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René Thom

French mathematician1923 to 2002

Wikidata names Henri Cartan as doctoral advisor and lists 5 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 7 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata5

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Teachers and mentors1

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Henri Cartan

The line above and below4 steps

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 62 people: 62 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

Education and career7

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.